<![CDATA[Can't save covers with slashes in name]]>I'm on Linux, and If I search for a cover for an album where the title contains a slash, I get an error message, and the cover won't save.

This is a general problem with Unixes, where the slash / is the directory separator and about the only invalid character in a file name. Therefore a slash must be replaced by another character, eg an underscore, before Strawberry tries to save a cover.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/576/can-t-save-covers-with-slashes-in-nameRSS for NodeSat, 11 Apr 2026 05:26:34 GMTThu, 03 Mar 2022 16:11:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Can't save covers with slashes in name on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:50:53 GMT]]>@rlkeeney I'm talking about a forward slash (/) not a backslash (\), like in Lionel Hampton's "Golden Vibes / Silver Vibes". It's probably the same issue with artist names with slashes in them, like AC/DC (which I don't play).

The problem is that I don't try to create the file, Strawberry does when it downloads a cover and tries to save it in the music folder.

I have set Strawberry to "Save album covers in album directory" with the default pattern %albumartist-%album -- which doesn't work when there's a slash in the album name. Then it just throws up an error message saying something to the effect that the image can't be stored.

This is clearly a bug, and it should be easy to remedy by replacing the slash with another character, like an underscore, before saving.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/1522https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/1522Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:50:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Can't save covers with slashes in name on Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:00:11 GMT]]>@leifbk You can use"" in a file name in Linux. I just created these three files using different methods. That said I don't think having a "" in a filename is a good idea.

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